Kerry,
Thanks for that effort and I totally agree. Dyed-in-the-wool Wikipedians
quickly develop a blind eye for other ways of approaching the topic of an
edit-a-thon and it is the fresh perspective of the attendees that keeps us
up-to-date and challenges the workflows we currently keep in place. So
whether or not those attendees go on to become Wikipedians, edit-a-thons
remain a very productive tool for bringing Wikipedians together with their
reading public in focused topic areas.
Jane
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raymond(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Well, I hope you will all be delighted to hear I have
just pushed out
some of the first articles created as part of Australian Women of
Neuroscience 2014
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_Women_of_Neuroscience_2014
I didn’t support the event personally so I am not quite sure why the
articles were still sitting user space months after the event, but the
organiser just asked me to help get them live so I did a bit of a clean-up
and moved them into the mainspace. I believe there are a lot more articles
but waiting for the organiser to point me at them.
While these kind of edit-a-thons don’t seem to create ongoing editors,
they do at least create some content in under-represented areas: women
scientists in this case.
Kerry
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*From:* gendergap-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
gendergap-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Pine W
*Sent:* Thursday, 26 March 2015 2:24 PM
*To:* Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the
participationof women within Wikimedia projects.
*Subject:* [Gendergap] Some motivation (:
Quoted from the publicly logged #wikimedia-office IRC channel, and
emailing with the consent of Emily:
[17:14:19] <harej> Finnegan: or in emily's case, "there are not enough
articles on women scientists. this is an outrage to us."
[17:15:19] <Finnegan> i am now enjoying a mental image of her delivering a
podium-pounding speech to rouse the feminists
[17:15:52] <marktraceur> I want you to get up, walk to your windows, throw
them open, and yell "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M GOING TO WRITE ARTICLES ABOUT
WOMEN SCIENTISTS"
[17:15:54] <ragesoss> DOWN WITH THE PATRIARCHY
[17:16:46] <Finnegan> marktraceur: i think you honestly just summarized
her operating philosophy. If only everyone could channel their anger like
that..."
I thought (and apparently other people do as well!) that Emily's approach
is quite motivational! (:
Pine
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